If you want to run a clone of Microsoft Windows to escape the drama of upgrading to Windows 10, try ReactOS — but do not expect it to be a fully functional replacement any time soon. ReactOS is a free ...

ReactOS is an open source operating system designed to be compatible with Windows applications. It’s been in development for more than two decades and is still very much work-in-progress software, but ...

When picking operating systems for a closer look here in the Daily Drivers series, the aim has not been to merely pick the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the more intriguing options is ReactOS, which aims to be Windows, but without Microsoft - ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and noted that “Microsoft’s RDP client, Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.1 doesn’t support OS X 10.7 or later.” … an observation to which ...

I spent the day running what feels like to me as one of the weirdest Operating Systems on the planet: ReactOS. A few days ago I started out on a quest to use as many Open Source (but not Linux) ...

In the crowd of GNU/Linux and BSD users that throng our community, it’s easy to forget that those two families are not the only games in the open-source operating system town. One we’ve casually kept ...

The developers of ReactOS have been working to develop an open source operating system capable of running Windows software since 1998. It’s been slow going: version 0.3.0 was released in 2006. Nearly ...